Your garage door is stronger than you could ever imagine!

Have you ever actually thought about everything your garage door does for you, every day? We went ahead and evaluated some of the performance challenges that your garage door may find itself subjected to, some that most homeowners would never even have thought to consider. You’ll look at your garage door in a whole new light by the time you’re done with this blog. And, you’ll have a much better understanding of how necessary it is to invest in a top quality product, and have it installed by industry professionals.

Putting your garage door to the test…

Every day you look right at it but you don’t really see it, do you? But it’s there, your garage door, working hard for you every single day.

• Think about all the times it has been battered and abused by soccer balls, basketballs and baseballs.
• Or how it keeps you warm all during the winter, and cool throughout the summer.
• And consider how your garage door keeps you safe from criminals, and other wrongdoers who might break into your house to commit who knows what terrible deeds.
• All of that and it stands up to the worst the elements have to offer, from the sleet and snow, to the wind and rain.

Now let’s think about some of the important tasks that you ask of your garage door all the time…

• During its lifespan, your garage door will open and close well over 25,000 times. That’s roughly the equivalent of climbing up, and down, the entire height of Mount Everest over five times!
• And every day your garage door is pounded by the ultraviolet rays of the sun, all without the benefit of sunscreen. That’s more than enough energy to cook a Thanksgiving turkey all the way through.
• If we took the output of all that solar energy over a 25 year period, it would be equivalent to over 55 barrels of peak performance gasoline. And your garage door would stay shining the whole time.
• Even more incredibly, during the coldest days of the winter the difference between the interior of your garage and the exterior of your garage can reach over fifty degrees Fahrenheit (or ‑25 Celsius). That kind of temperature differential, if your garage door has a thermal insulation value of R‑16 or better, is approximately equivalent to the protection of three fully insulated winter coats. All piled on top of each other, sporting well over an inch of Thinsulate insulation!
• The same kind of calculations could be performed taking into account the high temperatures of summer, if you have yourself a properly insulated and weather sealed garage door. If so, your garage will have no problem keeping you cool and comfortable.

Does this give you some good ideas?

Hopefully by now you’ll have some idea about just how important a role your garage door plays for you and your home. You should be pretty well equipped with the information necessary to select an insulated and weathertight garage door to protect you and your home from the elements and other things. Take into consideration, also, that doors with a polyurethane insulation will usually provide you with the absolute best performance‑protection from extreme weather, hot and cold, as well as greatly reducing exposure to exterior noise. It also greatly helps in providing a higher resistance to the effects of bending and warping over time.

So if you really are considering changing your garage door and updating your home, contact us or come on down and meet us at our show room. It will be our great pleasure to explain to you the whole range of products we offer, and discuss how best a new door could be designed to fit with the architecture of your home. In addition, you can always send a request for a free online quotation.

Also, if you’re interested in changing up your garage door in the future, you can always try out a great tool like our Design Centre and create exactly the garage door you want. And you can always peruse our online image gallery. Call us today at:

• London: 519-685-9797
• Mount Pleasant: 905-304-9700
• Guelph: 519-821-4400
• Goderich: 519-482-3251